ABSTRACT
Bryce’s vision finally came to be realized posthumously when ‘his’ bill finally made it on to the statutes with the 1939 Access to Mountains Act. The Convention of the Scottish Royal Burghs have repeatedly petitioned in its favour, and similar requests have been made by the Royal Scottish Academy of Arts, the Society of Painters in Water Colours, the Glasgow Philosophical Society, and the Glasgow Geological Society. The scenery of a country has been filched away from the reader just when the people have begun to prize it more than ever before. It coincided with greatest change that has ever passed over people – the growth of huge cities and dense populations in many places outside those cities – and this change has made far greater than before the need for the opportunity of enjoying nature and places where health may be regained by bracing air and exercise, and where the jaded mind can rest in silence and in solitude.
